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PatentedSept.15,1885.

UNETE STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

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METHOD OF ATTACHING SOLES OFBOOTS OR SHOES.

SFEFJEE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,150, dated September 15,1885.

I Application filed July 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREEBORNF. RAY- MOND, 2d, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Process of Bottoming Boots or Shoes,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates especially to the process or method of applying outer soles to the insoles of the boot or shoe, whereby the operation of bottoming is simplified, expedited, and cheapened.

It consistsin mounting the lasted upper and insole upon a last or work-support of the proper size and shape, and having a surface adapted to give shape. to the outsole, and in then projecting the outsole and insole to a molding orshaping pressure, whereby the outsole is caused to conform to the surface of the last or work-support, and, while the outsole is thus held to the insole, shaped to the surface of the last or heel-support in uniting the outsole, upper, and insole together by a gang or group of fastenings simultaneously driven, and to then, without removing the boot or shoe from the last or work-support, subjectjt to the operation of abeating-out form or mold, whereby the final finishing and shaping of the outsole is obtained.

In practicing this invention I prefer to use I the machine described in my application for Letters Patent of the United States filed April 25, 1885, Serial No. 163,440, or a suitable modification thereof.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical central section of a last with the upper and insole mounted thereon. Fig. 2 represents in vertical section a last with the upper and insole mounted thereon and an unformed outsole over the insole, and in side elevation a jack. Fig. 3 shows in vertical section a portion of a pressure or templet plate having holes arranged therein, through which the attaching-fastenings are driven, andthe last with the shoe mounted thereon, and the jack in side elevation. The outsole is represented as formed or shaped to the surface of the last. Fig. 4. represents a side elevation of the shoe, showing the outsole thus shaped. Fig. 5 represents the parts shown in Fig. 3, also the gang or group of drivers, and the outsole is shown as secured to the insole. Fig. 6 shows in side elevation and in vertical section a last and the 'shoe thereon, and above it the beating-out form or mold and a part of the arm supporting or carrying it. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the complete shoe.

The jack and parts of the machine shown in the drawings are fully described in .my said application for Letters Patent of the United States.

A represents the last or work-support. It is adapted to be mounted upon any suitable jack, and it preferably is made of cast-iron, and to have the characteristics of a beatingout form or last. Upon this last-or worksupport the lasted upper is mounted,as shown in' Fig. 1, and the outsole is then placed thereon, as shown in Fig. 2, although theoutsole may be temporarily secured to the insole before it is mounted upon said jack or worksupport. Fig. 3 represents the shoe mounted upon the last or work-support with the outsole in position. The boot or shoe is then submitted to a sole shaping or molding operation, which shapes the outsole upon the insole to the surface of the last or work-support, preferably as described in my said application; and in Fig. 3 I have represented so much of the parts of said machine as are necessary to illustrate this step of the process. "While and last or work-support it is fastened or secured to the insole by a gang or group of fastenings simultaneously driven; and in Fig. 5 I

thns'attached. The shoe is then submitted, without being removed from thelast or worksupport, to the action of a beating form or mold, whereby the sole is given its ultimate form, shape, and finish, and is properly solidified, and the nails caused to take a more uniform appearance and the leather of the outsole to be consolidated about them; andin Fig. 6 I have represented so much of said machine as is necessary to illustrate this step of the process; and in Fig. 7 I show the completed shoe.

It will be seen from the above statement that by mounting the lasted upper upon a last or worksupport adapted for the subsequent opthe outsole is thus heldshapedupon the insole have represented the shoe having the outsole Clfll'lOLS ofsimultancously nailing and of boating out the shape of the shoe is maintained during these operations when it is most important to preserve in the upper the form of the last; also, that a saving in time is effected; also, that the same is done at much less eXpense,as the operations of the sole molding, fastening, and beating out can be done in one machine or apparatus, as described in my said application, and that it practically does away with the necessity of a separate tacking-011 machine, sole-molding machine, and beating out machine, the use of the same Work-support or last and the devices described in my said application enabling me to perform these operations as successive steps in an expeditious manner.

It isnot essential that the outsole be temporarily attached to the insole before the boot or shoe is mounted upon the last or work-support on thejack. The last or work-support may also be used in the lasting process, if so desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The method of bottoming boots or shoes, consisting in mounting the lasted upper and outsole upon a last or Work-support arranged upon a suitable jack, and then pressing the 30 outsole to the form of the surface of said last FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 21).

Witnesses:

J. M. DOLAN, FRED. B. DOLAN. 

